I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
Pitbull
If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.
I work hard. But I play hard, too.
You can't get much whiter than me.
This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.
I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.
My kids can't eat awards.
I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.
I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.
As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.
Music to me is something I did as a hobby.
I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.
I like to keep my money at the end of the day.
I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.
The people in Cuba, they know what I stand for, and there's a lot of people in Cuba that stand for the same. But they can't say it.
I look at this game from a different perspective.
In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.
I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.
I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.
I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.
One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.
I make music with no boundaries.
Music is my hustle.
I'm here to entertain.
My owner is life and that's what I fight for.
When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.
I'm in the major league now.
With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.
I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.
It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.
Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.
Look, Pitbull is a product.
Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.
